A few minutes ago, at the stroke of midnight, I heard a rustling in the bushes outside my apartment below my balcony, followed by some sort of animal squeal. I've only ever seen two kinds of animals back there -- my neighbor's cat, and a gigantic raccoon. So when I heard this noise, which did not sound pleasant, I scrambled for my flashlight and ran out onto my balcony to see if I could save my poor neighbor's cat.
I shined the light down along the path of bushes between my building and the next, and saw nothing. Then I heard a grunt to the right, and swung the light that way. Two heads rose up - a big raccoon head and...a smaller raccoon head. One above the other. It kind of looked like the smaller raccoon's head was sticking out of the larger raccoon's chest, with the larger raccoon standing in a sort of wide stance....
....Ohhhhhh. My bad, Mr. and Mrs. Raccoon. Didn't mean to barge in on your romantic evening. As you were.
I retreated back into my apartment, feeling oddly guilty. They had resumed before I got through the door. I think getting caught was a turn-on for them, because the really started going at it after I left. Hilarious.
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now *that* was funny.
So, another funny wild animal story in two parts:
The couple I house sit for mentioned something about a family of coyotes moving into the neighborhood with their 6 pups. I warned the trivia group about it before our BBQ on Saturday and accidentally wrote "cougar" instead of "coyote." I know, much different. That kind of became the joke of the night.
Once it got dark some of us were still outside and heard the coyotes howling (pretty far away). Still, I was nervous, so I went downstairs to turn on some of the lights under the porch. When I went back up I realized that I sort of freaked out the folks sitting on the balcony since they thought there was some sort of motion sensor... whoops.. my bad. :)
Anyway, now you know what they're talking about if they speak of cougars in edmonds next weekend.
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